“February 26. The Wicked Shall Decay by A.D. Mercer. A new book by the author of Liber Coronzom, being a collectanea of old English sorcery and rural charms, gathered from widely disparate and obscure sources.

March 25. The Green Mysteries by Daniel A. Schulke. The long-awaited book of plant lore and sorcery emerges at the onset of Spring, with shipping taking place throughout the month of April. For receipt of inventory, we are renting an additional warehouse to accommodate this single title alone, given the size of the book and the number of volumes. Stay tuned for updates in the coming weeks for details on book launch events for this title.

April 15: Witch-Ikon. Another large volume, this one treating the image of the witch, will be emerging shortly after The Green Mysteries.

April 30: Sounds of Infinity by Lee Morgan. Lee’s groundbreaking work on modern traditional witchcraft, the faerie realm, and the powers of the liminal, illustrated with haunting original images by Lily Collard.

The second edition of Daniel A. Schulke’s Veneficium, newly redesigned and expanded with additional material and new art from Benjamin A. Vierling, was recently released and is now available for purchase.

The present edition is also available in softcover and begins the Triangulum Lamiarum (‘Triangle of the Witches’) trilogy, with the following two titles projected for release in 2019 and 2021 respectively.

WYRD Volume 3 Nearing Release

The third volume of the esoteric journal WYRD is soon to emerge from press. Volume three is 64 pages and features an article on a cunning-folk exorcism by A.D. Mercer, a new interview with Peter Carroll by Fredrik Eytzinger, and works from Theydon Bois, Corinne Boyer, and Daniel A. Schulke, as well as Johnny Decker Miller’s illustrated article “Panic, Masquerade and Baraka.” The journal also includes original images by Joseph Uccello and Daniel Yates. WYRD 3 will be announced for sale on March 20, Vernal Equinox.

]]>http://zeroequalstwo.net/three-hands-press-announces-publication-of-the-wicked-shall-decay-other-titles/feed/0He Lost His Virginity With an Alienhttp://zeroequalstwo.net/he-lost-his-virginity-with-an-alien/
http://zeroequalstwo.net/he-lost-his-virginity-with-an-alien/#respondFri, 16 Feb 2018 17:00:17 +0000http://zeroequalstwo.net/?p=14721Continue Reading →]]>Does this sound like something out of the X-Files? It’s not. David Huggins says he’s been having a sexual relationship with an extraterrestrial for more than half a century. He not only talks about his encounters; he also paints them. Now there’s an online film about his story, too: Love and Saucers.

When he left Georgia in the mid 60s for art school in New York City, the beings followed. Nocturnal visits from Crescent, the ET who deflowered him, became routine. “My relationship with Crescent was warm and friendly. A little strange. What do I mean, a little. Very strange. She was my girlfriend, really,” Huggins says in the film. “A very unconventional relationship,” he adds.

“The 72 demons, devils and monstrous beasts constrained within this ‘book without words’ are iconic of all the vices, ills, impure appetites and perverse passions that thrive in the life of humankind.

“In a style evocative of illustrations from medieval manuscripts, the artist presents, without explanation, a study of the afflictions that vex, tempt, thwart and harm us. These he has extracted from raw experience and distilled through art, so that a multitude of malign forces might be captured in the form of images to illuminate the obscure depths of the psyche. Contemplating these illustrations, unmediated by text, will provoke a personal response in the viewer, the images acting in accordance with one’s capacity, or resolve, to penetrate the wilder reaches of the inner world. For some this will be a medicine, or a drug, for others a source of sensual and intellectual arousal.

“The phantasmagoria of 72 draws from the long history of European demonology, but is marked by the acuity and black humour of the artist, Ayis Lertas.

“72 will be issued as a mutus liber, limited to 504 hardback copies bound in a fiery red cloth; and as a large format letterpress print limited to 72 copies. The preorder is now open for the hardback edition, which will begin shipping in mid March. The print will be available to order when it is in stock and ready to ship.”

]]>http://zeroequalstwo.net/scarlet-imprint-announces-publication-of-72-a-mutus-liber/feed/0New Episode of Thelema, NOW! Interview with Lita-Luise Chappellhttp://zeroequalstwo.net/new-episode-of-thelema-now-interview-with-lita-luise-chappell/
http://zeroequalstwo.net/new-episode-of-thelema-now-interview-with-lita-luise-chappell/#respondThu, 15 Feb 2018 23:00:27 +0000http://zeroequalstwo.net/?p=14719Continue Reading →]]>On the latest episode of Thelema, NOW! Harper Feist talks to Sister Lita-Luise Chappell. Chappell’s latest books are The Collioure Concealment and Murder of the Mystras Nun, and the third part of the trilogy will be coming soon. She talks about her writing process and finding inspiration.

Lita has been writing poetry, short stories, mysteries, plays, lyrics, rituals, cookbooks, investigative articles, and travelogues for almost fifty years. She has a master’s degree in Psychology, and a doctorate in Human Sexuality. She has had several careers: in food service as a chef and caterer, in electronics, in the music industry, in the publishing business, and as a sex therapist. She has also traveled extensively to Western Europe, the Netherlands, the British Isles, the Far East, southeastern Asia, northern Africa, Canada, Mexico, other U.S. territories and Australia. She has been a student of the occult as a priestess in ancient Egyptian, Eleusinian Greek, Italian Strega, British Celtic, Northumbrian Faerye, Hawaiian Huna, and Thelema. Through it all, she has written as she went along, commenting on different cultures, human behavior, politics, love, sex, wisdom and magick.

]]>http://zeroequalstwo.net/new-episode-of-thelema-now-interview-with-lita-luise-chappell/feed/0Happy “I Want Butterscotch” Day!http://zeroequalstwo.net/happy-i-want-butterscotch-day/
http://zeroequalstwo.net/happy-i-want-butterscotch-day/#respondThu, 15 Feb 2018 17:00:42 +0000http://zeroequalstwo.net/?p=14709Continue Reading →]]>Today, February 15, is I Want Butterscotch Day! It’s also National Gumdrop Day, Remember the Maine Day, St. Skeletor’s Day, National Hippo Day, Susan B. Anthony Day, and Singles Awareness Day. Valentine’s Day candy will be marked down for clearance at most stores. This post, however, will concentrate on the butterscotch, which corresponds with the sun and solar workings.

]]>http://zeroequalstwo.net/happy-i-want-butterscotch-day/feed/0Krzysztof Azarewicz’s Trans-State Presentation: “Mysticism and Transcendence in the Art of J.F.C. Fuller.”http://zeroequalstwo.net/krzysztof-azarewiczs-trans-state-presentation-mysticism-and-transcendence-in-the-art-of-j-f-c-fuller/
http://zeroequalstwo.net/krzysztof-azarewiczs-trans-state-presentation-mysticism-and-transcendence-in-the-art-of-j-f-c-fuller/#respondThu, 15 Feb 2018 12:10:10 +0000http://zeroequalstwo.net/?p=14716Continue Reading →]]>Here’s still another video from the Trans State Conference, Krzysztof Azarewicz’s presentation on “Treasure House of Images: Mysticism and Transcendence in the Art of J.F.C. Fuller.”

J.F.C. Fuller (1878 – 1966) was a British Army officer, military historian, strategist, early theorist of modern armoured warfare, whose analysis helped to develop a tactics called blitzkrieg. He was also a student of Aleister Crowley and a member of his magical order called AA. Not much attention is put on his career as an artist. He created extraordinary mystical paintings and drawings used by Crowley to illustrate his periodical of scientific illuminism, “The Equinox”. Fuller’s paintings were also supposed to decorate walls of the AA temples in order to create a specific mystical atmosphere allowing aspirants to transcend everyday state of mind and enter the state of Gnosis. Similar experimental attitude was adopted by Paul Gauguin in his House of Pleasure and Aleister Crowley in his Abbey of Thelema. In this richly illustrated presentation Krzysztof will discuss symbolism of Fuller’s artwork and also will share his experiences from magical workings conducted in the modern temple decorated with murals inspired by Fuller. ”

Krzysztof Azarewicz is a Polish-born traveller, publisher, psychonaut and explorer of magical realms of existence. A founder and director of Lashtal Press that publishes books by Aleister Crowley, Austin O. Spare and others in Polish, Krzysztof has also written several essays on Thelema, Magick, Tarot and Alchemy that were translated into English, French and Spanish. He holds a M.A. in Political Science. He travels extensively with his wife, Ania, exploring magical realms of existence from Tibetan plateau, through pyramids and deserts of Northern Africa, to occult scenes of Berlin, London and New York.

]]>http://zeroequalstwo.net/krzysztof-azarewiczs-trans-state-presentation-mysticism-and-transcendence-in-the-art-of-j-f-c-fuller/feed/0Reading and Mis-reading the Quran – WWCD?http://zeroequalstwo.net/reading-and-mis-reading-the-quran-what-would-crowley-do/
http://zeroequalstwo.net/reading-and-mis-reading-the-quran-what-would-crowley-do/#respondWed, 14 Feb 2018 23:02:47 +0000http://zeroequalstwo.net/?p=14712Continue Reading →]]>I don’t think there can be much debate that the Prophet of the Lovely Star was much enamored of Islamic culture and in fact our Holy Book, Liber AL mentions the “kaaba” and “kiblah” – crucial elements of Muslim’s worship life. So perhaps there’s a point of having a reasonable understanding of the Holy Book of Islam, the Quran especially at the current times when both Muslim extremists and the most extreme critics’ thereof regularly misquote and distort this body of scripture. The New York Times Book Review recently covered Garry Wills What The Quar’an Meant addressing such issues. Here’s an excerpt of the review:

“I finally read it properly — as properly as I could, that is, using several different translations alongside the original Arabic — as part of my research for a biography of Muhammad. And that’s when I realized that the fact that so few people actually read the Quran is precisely why it’s so easy to quote. Or rather, misquote. In what I call the highlighter version, phrases and snippets are taken entirely out of context and even invented out of thin air, like the 72 virgins in paradise (I kept waiting for them, but they never appeared). This is the version favored by both Islamophobes and their partners in distortion, Muslim extremists — partners in bigotry and its correlate, ignorance…

“Wills calls this book ‘a conversation — or the opening of one,’ so there’s a particular joy when he discovers that ‘all things talk in the Quran. It is abuzz with conversation. For Allah, the real meaning of creating is communicating. The Quran is an exercise in semiotics. God speaks a special language, in which mountains and words and springs are the syllables. Everything is a sign…’

“In fact, he points out, jihad does not mean ‘holy war.’ It means ‘striving’ — as in striving to lead a moral life. The main point of the Quran’s discussion of violence is to establish limitations on its use, and to ‘abstain from violence to the degree that that is possible.’ While a few endlessly cited verses have to do with violence, ‘the overall tenor is one of mercy and forgiveness, which are evoked everywhere, almost obsessively.’ This is what is striven for in the Quran, not war.”

]]>http://zeroequalstwo.net/reading-and-mis-reading-the-quran-what-would-crowley-do/feed/0A New Experience From The Shape of Waterhttp://zeroequalstwo.net/a-new-experience-from-the-shape-of-water/
http://zeroequalstwo.net/a-new-experience-from-the-shape-of-water/#respondWed, 14 Feb 2018 17:00:44 +0000http://zeroequalstwo.net/?p=14694Continue Reading →]]>A recent article in io9 informs us that “A Dildo Maker Has Finally Determined What The Shape of Water’s Fish Dick Looks Like.” XenoCat Artifacts has created a dildo to give you the fishman experience from Guillermo Del Toro’s Oscar-nominated film. While it is out of stock right now, more will be available before the Academy Awards.

The “Jewel of the Amazon” as it’s named, appears to be silicone and glows under UV light. Reviewers on Etsy praised its “wonderful mix of textures to explore” while reassuring potential buyers that “the ridged fins don’t feel as harsh as they look.” Unfortunately, “Jewel of the Amazon” appears to have sold out of its initial production run.

The following links are relevant, but they may be inappropriate for your place of employment:

As of the Winter meeting of the Electoral College of U.S. Grand Lodge of Ordo Templi Orientis the presidency of this governmental body was officially and fully assumed by a new president. The outgoing president provided the College with a post about his experience and we’re please to present an excerpt therefrom:

“My experiences serving as President were humbling. I endeavored to direct debate within the College fairly and to make hard decisions for what the College and myself believe was the healthiest direction for the Order’s future. The lesson that “Government is Service, and nothing else” was repeatedly driven home. There is no place for ego in the office of the
President of the College. Frankly, my fellow Electors would mirror that directly to me when my ego began to get in the way, and for that I am humbly and eternally grateful. My years as President of the College have been profoundly transformative, and I am eternally appreciative for the difficult challenges that the office provided me with as I was able to develop my character by leaps and bounds.”

“The material on these recordings have been dreamt by Andrew Liles. They were originally performed and released by Current 93 on the following albums Nature Unveiled, Dogs Blood Rising, Nightmare Culture, Live At Bar Maldoror, In Menstrual Night, Dawn, I Have A Special Plan For This World and Faust.

“I Have A Special Plan For This World was based on a text written by Thomas Ligotti and also made use of his collection of The Bungalow Tapes. Faust was inspired by the short story by Count Stenbock.

“This expanded download version of LIKE SWALLOWING ECLIPSES ​collates all the Andrew Liles remixes of Current 93 and ​has been fully remastered ​for this digital format.

“It also contains the ​for the first time digitally – Haunt Invocation (Apadno) I: I Have A Special Plan For This World, Haunt Invocation (Apadno) II: Faust ​and previously unreleased mixes Haunt Invocation (Apadno) ​III and Haunt Invocation (Apadno) ​IV.”